Is it time for Islander East?

With Broadwater's plan to build a liquefied natural gas facility in the Long Island Sound dead and gone, it could be time to resurrect another famous pipe dream.
According to David Reich-Hale's story in Long Island Business News this week, that's exactly what's happening.
Politicians from both sides of the Sound told LIBN they'd be willing to ...

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Nothing cheers me more than an evironmentalist that lives in a mega mansion and shows up in gas oinking SUV.

There are always envirnmental ramifications for anything we want to do. If we put up a solar array in a field we probably have to sacrifice a few trees, or destroy the grass below the solar panels, yet we build then anyway because the net environmental effect is better than creating power in a fossil fuel plant.

Don’t sacrifice the good for the sake of the perfect. The perfect doesn’t exist and probably never will. Placing Islander East across the sound will disturb shellfish beds in a track that is 6 feet wide across the sound. Compared to the vast amount of real estate at the floor of the Sound, that is a very small footprint. Moreover, in a short time the surrounding clam beds and other bottom dwellers will repair the losses. Any loss will be totally recovered. Meanwhile headline seeking political people will make a lot of noise about what essentially is non-issue. My message to anyone who wants demigogue this, I say “Grow-up.”

If solar power was economical, it would be widespread…the market rules!

As natural gas and other fuels become less affordable on Long Island, expensive solar may be used more…but as a result of the influence of pseudo-environmentalists, Long Island’s economy will lose competitiveness with other regions…and Long Islanders will be less wealthy.